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Common name: Asteropeia Family.
Number of genera 1. Number of species 7.
Angiosperm. Magnoliopsida.
Disseminule an intact or entire fruit.
Fruits
Pistil(s) 1; 1-pistillate. Fruit anthocarp (Spjut did not score this family); simple; within accessory organ(s); within calyx (5 winglike calices); accrescent; not sulcate; apex not beaked; indehiscent. Epicarp durable; without armature; without apical respiratory hole. Endocarp present; not separating from exocarp; thin; not splitting into 1-seeded pyrenes; without operculum.
Seeds
Aril absent. Testa present; without glands; without wings; without collar; without operculum; colored; monochrome; not becoming mucilaginous when wetted.
Embryo well developed.
Distribution
Old World. Africa (only Madagascar).
Notes
No seed and little fruit data. Spjut did not score this family. (BARC) has fruit sample of Asteropeia multiflora, but has no literature in folder. Cronquist & Mabberley have in Theaceae.
Weed information
No USA noxious weeds.
Listed seeds
No ASOA or ISTA listed seeds.
Accepted genera
Asteropeia Thouars
References specific to this family
Cronquist page 322 (Cronquist & Mabberley have in Theaceae). Grandidier, A. 1889. Hist. phys. Madagascar, plates 129, 130. Published by the author, Paris.
General references
Cronquist, A. 1981. An integrated system of classification of flowering plants, 1,262 p. Columbia University Press, New York, Gunn, C.R., J.H. Wiersema, C.A. Ritchie, and J.H. Kirkbride, Jr. 1992 and amendments. Families and genera of Spermatophytes recognized by the Agricultural Research Service. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1796:1–500, Mabberley, D.J. 1987. The plant-book, 706 p. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Illustrations
Acceptable fruit illustration, but no seed. Disseminule illustration(s): fruit. Fruit illustration(s): Grandidier (1889). Embryo illustration(s): 12 August 2008. The seeds and embryos of Asteropeia multiflora Thouars are so small that I could not dissect out the embryo. Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.
• Fruit. 1 of 2. Asteropeia multiflora Thouars: fruit with calyx. • Seed. 2 of 2. Asteropeia multiflora Thouars: seeds.
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Cite this publication as: ‘J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., C.R. Gunn, and M.J. Dallwitz. 2000 onwards. Family guide for fruits and seeds: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 12th April 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
